The bodies' historical and political production in individuals in modern Western societies is provided. Whereas above perspective is closer to the social and human sciences, it is different and critical to the anatomical and physiological approach predominant in the natural sciences and in medicine. Current analysis, based on Michel Foucault, denaturalizes an approach of the body centered on biological and anatomical-physiological elements and problematizes its construction in social, economical and political terms, besides aesthetical ones, throughout History.
History of the body; bio-power; Michel Foucault